Château de la Rochette

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Château de la Rochette, at Lully, stood on an isolated rock surrounded by the Mosses stream. It had a polygonal enclosure, flanked to the north by a cylindrical keep and, to the south, by two round corner towers, protected by an advanced lower courtyard in front of the southern entrance. Built in the mid-13th century, probably at the initiative of Gérold de Cervens, it belonged to the lords of Cervens until around 1340, then to Françoise de Cervens du Vernay, who bequeathed it to her husband Guillaume d'Allinges, lord of Coudrée; the Allinges family retained it until 1840. Ruined as early as 1590, it was subsequently exploited as a stone quarry; its remains have been protected as a monument historique since 1932.